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From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bad floppy crashes system and Support FLAME!!
Keywords: bad stuff, maynard
Message-ID: <6933@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 19 May 89 15:48:54 GMT
References: <0473.AA0473@myhut> <15928@gryphon.COM>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <15928@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>My *guess* is that it's reading information off the disk then
>acring on it without validating the information. This seems to be
>a generally unsound practice.

Actually, what its doing is validating the information, and finding it
so bad that it assumes that the data structures for that drive are
corrupt, and that any writing using that drive is doomed to failure.

This is probably not optimum behavior :-)

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